Meagan Holman

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Meagan Holman

Prior offices

Milwaukee Public Schools Board of School Directors District 8

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Education

Bachelor's

Oberlin College

Graduate

Harvard University

Personal

Profession

College lecturer

Meagan Holman was the District 8 incumbent on the Milwaukee Board of School Directors in Wisconsin. Her four-year term expired in April 2015. Holman did not seek re-election in the general election on April 7, 2015.

Holman was a 2016 nonpartisan candidate for District 14 of the Milwaukee City Council in Wisconsin. She was defeated by incumbent Tony Zielinski in the general election on April 5, 2016.

Biography

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Holman is from Boston, Mass. She attended Oberlin College in Ohio, in addition to Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she earned a master's degree in public policy. She began her career with two years of service in the AmeriCorps. At the time of her tenure, Holman was serving as a lecturer in the Education Policy Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her four sons attend Fernwood Montessori School in Milwaukee Public Schools.

Awards and associations

Holman was a 2016 Emerge Wisconsin candidate. Emerge America is an organization that supports Democratic women running for office.

Campaign themes

2016

Holman's website highlighted the following campaign themes:

Summer jobs

• Excerpt: "In Milwaukee, a small pilot program based around summer employment continues on the city’s north side. Youth Works Milwaukee might be new, and serve just a handful of high school students this year, but hopes are high that this program will yield the kind of results we expect from summer jobs programs:
  • improved high school graduation rates
  • better long-term employment prospects and lifetime earning potential
  • local economy gains since money earned by teens is generally spent in the community
  • a more skilled, more experienced, and more diverse workforce"

Public collaboration

• Excerpt: "Intersector problem solving involves collaborative, comprehensive intergovernmental cooperation with private and nonprofit entities. Milwaukee’s challenges are too big for us to silo our efforts. The ability to navigate across the government, business, and nonprofit sectors is more important than ever when society’s most difficult problems increasingly cannot be solved by one sector alone."

Accountability boards

• Excerpt: "We can do more to help individuals in our community to build trust with each other and ourselves, foster healthy relationships, and forge new ties in our community by solving conflicts through Neighborhood Accountability Boards. As your Alderwoman, Meagan will work hard to get Neighborhood Accountability Boards on the city’s agenda to build a stronger Milwaukee."

Constituent engagement

• Excerpt: "We should insist upon feedback outside of traditional community meetings for our businesses and other potential developments. Through web presentations and surveys (using tools like Prezi and Surveymonkey), we can make the process more inclusive and transparent for everyone. Many cities are using all sorts of social media tool to reach constituents in new and interesting ways, and Milwaukee should do the same."

Pop-up economy

• Excerpt: "Pop-up and temporary ventures need not be limited to retail. Beyond commercial uses, developing shared spaces for community needs, like a bicycle repair co-op, tool lending, community indoor skatepark, or hostel can stimulate interest in underutilized business corridors, or generate stability in areas that generally have high business turnover."

Board membership

The Milwaukee Board of School Directors voted unanimously on 66.7 percent of its votes between January 1, 2014, and July 1, 2014. Out of all votes recorded by the board, 94.2 percent passed.

The voting data indicates that Michael Bonds, Terrence Falk, Meagan Holman, Tatiana Joseph, Mark Sain, Jeff Spence and Claire Zautke are the governing majority on the board. Larry Miller and Annie Woodward may be the minority faction, although their voting patterns are different enough to indicate that they are not unified on a majority of non-unanimous votes.

Elections

2016

See also: Municipal elections in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2016)

The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, held elections for mayor and city council on April 5, 2016. A primary election took place on February 16, 2016. All 15 city council seats were up for election. Incumbent Tony Zielinski defeated Meagan Holman in the Milwaukee City Council District 14 general election.

Milwaukee City Council District 14, General Election, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Tony Zielinski Incumbent	68.09%	8,971
Meagan Holman	31.72%	4,179
Write-in votes	0.2%	26
Total Votes		13,176
Source: City of Milwaukee, "Spring Election Official Results," April 11, 2016

2011

Primary

Milwaukee Public Schools, District 8 Primary Election, 4-year term, 2011
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Meagan Holman	50.2%	3,523
	Nonpartisan	Candy Jo Lesniewski	25.1%	1,759
	Nonpartisan	Ed Heinzelman	24.7%	1,735
Total Votes				7,017
Source: Wisconsin Election Watch, "Meagan Holman," accessed September 19, 2014

General

Milwaukee Public Schools, District 8 General Election, 4-year term, 2011
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Meagan Holman	67%	9,608
	Nonpartisan	Candy Jo Lesniewski	33%	4,734
Total Votes				14,342
Source: Wisconsin Election Watch, "Meagan Holman," accessed September 19, 2014

Recent news

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Meagan Holman News Feed

See also

• Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Municipal elections in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2016)
• United States municipal elections, 2016
• Milwaukee Public Schools, Wisconsin

External links

Suggest a link

• City of Milwaukee, "2016 Spring Election Candidates"
• Milwaukee Public Schools
• Office website